Specifics Quotes:

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

- Jeff Gannon

source: "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. February 24, 2005.

topic: Truth, Falsehood, Specifics

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

- Alvin Lustig

topic: Mistake, Acceptance, Past, Specifics, Matured

Although Mr. Trump talks an interesting and entertaining game, rarely do I hear him lay out specifics.

- Rick Perry

source: Source: stream.org

topic: Games, Interesting, Trump, Specifics

Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.

- Esther Hicks

topic: Law Of Attraction, Giving, Understanding, Specifics

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work...

- Antonio Gramsci

source: Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

topic: Children, Order, Discipline, Specifics, Puberty

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

- Alberto Manguel

topic: Reality, Doe, Literature, Specifics

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Preface, p. 10, 1987.

topic: War, Book, Years, Specifics

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

- Jeff VanderMeer

topic: Believe, Writing, Creative, Specifics

Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion budget deficit, without cutting spending or raising taxes because there was a third way. What is it? Let's just say it involves a robot going back in time to convince Gray Davis to go into dentistry.

- Bill Maher

topic: Cutting, California, Light, Go Back In Time, Specifics

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Thinking, Tacky, Want, Specifics

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Writing, Goal, Stories, Specifics

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

- Jeffrey Sachs

topic: Principles, Needs, Care, Hard Truths, Specifics

The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.

- Albert M. Wolters

topic: Spiritual, Risk, Tasks, Specifics, Authentic Christianity

If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.

- Jabari Asim

topic: Memories, Struggle, Writing, Specifics

When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

- Ralph Fletcher

topic: Writing, Tired, Names, Specifics, Tedious

"Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a story. But you are still working with drawn words.

- Chris Ware

topic: Real, Ideas, Drawing, Specifics, Comic Strips

That was cool, getting to work with Ryan Gosling. I knew he was going to be a huge star after I saw him in that Showtime thing that he did when he was really young [The Believer]. I think the most fun thing about that was I'd never seen somebody that had so many questions about the specifics of everything: where you ate, how much you ate, how much you drank. He's very special.

- Sherilyn Fenn

topic: Stars, Fun, Thinking, Fun Things, Specifics

Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.

- Paul Stookey

topic: Moving, Perspective, Essentials, Specifics

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

- Damian Loeb

source: "Damian Loeb Brings Hyperrealism To Another Level (NSFW PHOTOS)", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

topic: Art, Directors, Conform, Specifics, Art Director

You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It's not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it's an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way.

- Ed Helms

source: Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

topic: Stupid, Hero, Character, Specifics, Stupid Decision

Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio [for Chris] and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.

- Sean Penn

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Character, Thinking, Play, Specifics

Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.

- John Pfahl

topic: Photography, Past, Perfect, Specifics

My fear in life, I don't have any kind of specifics like snakes or spiders or anything but I think if I was covered in buttermilk naked running down the street being chased by Gandalf, I'd say, or I don't know, I'm just making it up!

- Theo James

source: "‘Divergent’ Interview: Theo James Talks Personal Fears & Complex Characters". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 17, 2014.

topic: Running, Thinking, Snakes, Specifics

'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

- David Harsanyi

topic: Country, Men, Order, Specifics, Turned Off

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Ideas, Attractive, Thrift, Specifics

Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.

- Merrill Markoe

source: Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

topic: Earth, Tasks, Belief, Specifics

Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.

- Mark Shields

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Fun, Airplane, Police, Specifics, Time Consuming

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

- William Beckett

topic: Song, Avoiding, Standpoint, Specifics

What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?

- Paul Krugman

topic: People, Giving, President, Specifics

I looked at a lot of the comics and I tried to just get an idea from that. Not necessarily specifics of what my look would be or what the plan would be because I knew the script was evolving. I then started the discussion with Ken, who had been in discussion with you guys, intimately. And that they'd pared it down.

- Colm Feore

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Ideas, Guy, Would Be, Specifics

When people say, well, they disapprove, I'd like to know what the specifics are, because sometimes - and the president [Barack Obama] has admitted this - they may not feel like he's really explaining and understanding the emotion behind some of these fears [about Iran]. And that's a perfectly legitimate question for people to ask. But if you look at the results of where we are, I think there are some things I agree with and some things I don't agree with, and I think that's absolutely fair game.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Thinking, Games, Iran, Fair Game, Specifics

Personally I don't like labels: Brazil is huge and each part has its own specifics. Of course the climate influences how people dress, but even climate can be completely different in different parts of the country here. Like any other part of the world, jeans, T-shirt and sneakers are the uniform for kids in the big cities. As the streetwear scene evolves, people get more connected to global brands, thanks to Internet.

- Ricardo Nunes

topic: Country, Kids, Jeans, Specifics

I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis for our agitation and our resistance and our complaints. I also discovered that while black Americans had a sense of the beauty and tragedy of the journey from the time of slavery until now, we were not rooted in the specifics. I thought one way to familiarize people with that history would be through the voices of the great folk artists.

- Harry Belafonte

source: Source: www.yesmagazine.org

topic: Struggle, Artist, Journey, Specifics

A lot of kids just want to go play basketball, but they don't know to play and they don't have the skills to play. I think just the skill development right off and then play all you can, but don't sacrifice your skill development by just playing and not working on the specifics of the game.

- Pat Summitt

source: Source: www.cyinterview.com

topic: Basketball, Kids, Sacrifice, Specifics, Skills Development

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

- Kiki Smith

source: Source: crushfanzine.com

topic: Wall, Character, Thinking, Specifics

A military preparedness strategy with specifics yesterday and today rolls out a school of choice plan with monetary specifics. So [Donald Trump] has pivoted over the last, he had a very rough go after the conventions.

- Eric Bolling

source: "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

topic: Military, School, Yesterday And Today, Specifics

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

- Matt Drudge

source: Source: noworldorder.com

topic: Reality, Events, Needs, Specifics

[Donald] Trump has quietly rolled out an immigration plan with specifics and everyone wants specifics. He's got immigration with specifics, a black and Hispanic outreach plan with specifics.

- Eric Bolling

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Black, Immigration, Want, Specifics, Outreach

You've seen [Doanld Trump] come out with a lot more specifics. He's not in hiding or smashing BlackBerry or BleachBit himself to death like we've seen Hillary do or Hillary [Clinton] throwing her stuff, you know, under the bus. She's not showing presidential leadership qualities.

- Kimberly Guilfoyle

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Specifics, Leadership Qualities, Presidential Leadership, Smashing

In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.

- Ernest Sosa

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Eye, Exercise, Color, Specifics, Circularity

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

- Edward Albee

source: Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Play, Pieces, Able, Specifics

I think people are wrong to do it, to compare him to your way of wanting to do it. If you're passionate about it, do it and do it your way. It's not always going to be in front of the cameras after a football game - that was the way I did it. Somebody else has a different way, and that's [James] LeBron, and I know who he is. And I can't get into specifics, but it did upset me that people were calling him out for that because they were just wrong.

- Andrew Hawkins

source: "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

topic: Football, Thinking, Games, Specifics

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.

- J. K. Rowling

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Limits, My Family, Theme, Specifics

The specifics of the platform, I don`t think, are necessarily going to be written by Bernie Sanders, but the themes of the platform are going to be written by Bernie Sanders.

- Steve Kornacki

topic: Thinking, Platforms, Theme, Specifics

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics.

- Kimberly Peirce

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Book, Thinking, Different, Specifics, Retelling

People, based on their emotion, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics 'cause there are none.

- Jeb Bush

source: "Jeb Bush Says Voters' Passions For Trump Will Pass". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

topic: People, Support, Emotion, Specifics

I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise questions. They say, "My kid has behavioral problems at school." Well, I have to say, "What kind of problems? Is he hitting? Is he rude? Does he rock in class?" I need to narrow questions to specifics. I am very pragmatic and intellectual, not emotional. I do get great satisfaction when a parent says, "I read your book, and it really helped me."

- Temple Grandin

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Book, School, Kids, Specifics

To go into more specifics regarding actors, whether they're from Korea or the U.S., all actors know if they are loved by the director. When they feel that love from the director, they respond by giving a great performance on camera. Also, everyone on set - the crew, the actors - they were aware of the film's message and its broad theme, so these big issues were never discussed on set.

- Kim Jee-woon

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Issues, Korea, Giving, Specifics, Great Performance

I don't expect us to cover all the issues of this campaign [2016] tonight, but I remind everyone, there are two more presidential debates scheduled. We are going to focus on many of the issues that voters tell us are most important, and we're going to press for specifics.

- Lester Holt

source: Source: time.com

topic: Two, Issues, Focus, Specifics, Presidential Debate

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

- Seth MacFarlane

topic: Firsts, Stories, Break, Specifics